The sequel was interesting but somehow sadder; it was confirmation that this destroyed her relationship with Mulder beyond any real repair; even their friendship is gone. There is no justice but I like that she didn't just give up.
Her personal relationship with Mulder was beyond repair in this universe. It's hard for me to see why confirming that made it sadder than a story that ended with Scully on the floor of her apartment, having been stripped of everything having to do with her core sense of self by the CSM.
There was justice in the second story, too, which is what redeems what happened to her, in her mind, at least.
Dissected babies, or close enough for government work: now there was a scandal.
As a scientist, Dana was aware that sunlight wasn’t in fact the best disinfectant. But for secrets such as these, it served well enough.
She gave interviews and held press conferences; once the story was out, her superiors couldn’t stop her and there was no denying that she’d made the Bureau look good, no longer J. Edgar’s weapon of harassment but a true watchman over the rest of the military-industrial complex. She even got a tentative overture from some congressional Republicans, a gentle suggestion that if she were interested in a political career the infrastructure was there to support her.
Dana was polite in her refusals. There was no reason to burn any bridges. But she still had work to do—pest control was how she thought of it.
"She gave interviews and held press conferences; once the story was out, her superiors couldn't stop her..."
Special Agent Dana Scully took down the Consortium, the shadow government that had authorized illegal experimentation on innocent people, without their consent, since Roswell. If that's not justice in this universe, I don't know what is. She also acknowledged that as long as she was caught up in Mulder's intensely personal view of the conspiracy, nothing was getting done to stop it. Here is the irony: what the Consortium did to her—stripping her memory of everything but her life on the X-Files—is what led directly to its downfall.
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Date: 2016-09-09 04:39 am (UTC)Her personal relationship with Mulder was beyond repair in this universe. It's hard for me to see why confirming that made it sadder than a story that ended with Scully on the floor of her apartment, having been stripped of everything having to do with her core sense of self by the CSM.
There was justice in the second story, too, which is what redeems what happened to her, in her mind, at least.
"She gave interviews and held press conferences; once the story was out, her superiors couldn't stop her..."
Special Agent Dana Scully took down the Consortium, the shadow government that had authorized illegal experimentation on innocent people, without their consent, since Roswell. If that's not justice in this universe, I don't know what is. She also acknowledged that as long as she was caught up in Mulder's intensely personal view of the conspiracy, nothing was getting done to stop it. Here is the irony: what the Consortium did to her—stripping her memory of everything but her life on the X-Files—is what led directly to its downfall.